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October 04, 2024

Joe Biden Calls His Friends in the Mob and Has the Longshoreman Delay -- Not Call Off, Delay -- Their Strike Until After the Election

I want some investigations into this.

What was agreed to? What did Biden promise?

Striking U.S. dockworkers will return to work Friday after reaching a tentative agreement with employers on an improved wage offer.

The conditional offer was for a 62% wage increase, FOX Business has learned.

62%?!?!

The offer is on the table for the next 90 days. If no deal is reached within that timeframe, the proposed wage hike will be pulled from the table.

The International Longshoremen's Association, which represents 45,000 striking U.S. workers, said the union and USMX have reached a "tentative agreement on wages and have agreed to extend the Master Contract until January 15, 2025 to return to the bargaining table to negotiate all other outstanding issues."

...


Despite mounting pressure, President Biden said over the weekend he would not intervene, saying he doesn't "believe in Taft-Hartley," a reference to 1947 legislation that curtailed unions.

The strike raised fears of disruptions in the supply chain. An analysis by JPMorgan estimated the daily cost of a port strike by East and Gulf Coast port workers would cost the U.S. economy between $3.8 billion and $4.5 billion per day as operations slow.

The ILA is strangling the American economy -- and not just through exorbitant salaries.

They are making everything more expensive by demanding fees every time cargo is merely "touched" by longshoreman, forcing freight out of the seas (which are cheap to move goods through) and onto trucks:

John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad

The ILA refusing automation isn't even the craziest demand.

The craziest ILA demand is *touch* fees

Let me explain...

You've heard about our crumbling highways and bridges? And the $1.2 TRILLION infrastructure bill Congress passed to fix them? Well, the primary culprit for that damage? Heavy loads.

The rest of the world gets it. They offload containers onto barges or feeder ships to save their roads and reduce fatalities. It's called short sea shipping.

Europe: Big ship arrives ➡️ 🏗️ moves container ➡️ terminal ➡️ 🏗️ onto a barge ➡️ barge sails to a smaller port ➡️ 🏗️ onto a truck ➡️ short drive to warehouse.

That's 3 crane *touches*

US (ILA ports): Big ship arrives ➡️ 🏗️ moves container ➡️ truck 🚛 drives *hundreds of miles.*

That's 1 union crane *touch*

Why? Because every time the union crane *touches* a container, the union rakes in a massive fee.

So it's somehow cheaper to truck containers hundreds of miles and let taxpayers foot the road repair bill than let the union *touch* it two more times for short sea shipping to work.

Only in America.


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